* 1521 – Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

* Hernán Cortés ( or Hernando Cortés ) ( 1485 – 1547 ), Spanish conquistador

The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.

Hernán Cortés ordered Moctezuma to ask his people to stop fighting.

He surrendered to Hernán Cortés along with the surviving pipiltin ( nobles ), and offered him his knife and asked to be killed.

* 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror ( b. 1485 )

Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés slew Emperor Cuauhtémoc and installed puppet rulers who became vassals for Spain.

* 1519: Hernán Cortés begins conquest of Mexico for Spain.

Hernán Cortés, however, in 1524, got word of Olid's insurrection and sent his cousin, Francisco de las Casas, along with several ships to Honduras to remove Olid and claim the area for Cortés.

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* 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.

Hernán Cortés and La Malinche meet Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, November 8, 1519.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

La Malinche (; c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529 ), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

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* Moctezuma II ( 1466 – 1520 ), ninth Aztec emperor, captured by Hernán Cortés and killed by his own people in a riot.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

The first hand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés.

Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán ( Relaciones de Hernán Cortés 1958: 279 ) have pointed the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica.

Another is the case of Hernán Cortés and his mistress La Malinche, who gave birth to another of the first multi-racial people in the Americas.

In 1519 Alvarado accompanied Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the fleet and also acting as Cortés ' second in command during the expedition's first stay in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán.

* 1519-Two Franciscans accompany Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico

This prompted the Hernán Cortés expedition in 1519.

He initially backed Hernán Cortés's famous expedition to Mexico, but pulled back his support before the expedition was scheduled to launch because of his personal enmity for Cortés.

The first Spanish expedition to visit Cozumel was led by Juan de Grijalva in 1518 ; in the following year Hernán Cortés stopped by the island on his way to Veracruz.

This was the starting point of the expeditions led by Juan de Grijalba and Hernán Cortés to the coasts of Mexico in 1518, and in 1538 by Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida.

Diego Velázquez, the governor of Cuba, ordered expeditions, one led by his nephew, Juan de Grijalva to Yucatán and the Hernán Cortés expedition of 1519.

Bernardino de Sahagún reported ritualistic use of teonanácatl by the Aztecs, when he traveled to Central America after the expedition of Hernán Cortés.

In 1519 an expedition of Spaniards sailing from Cuba under the leadership of Hernán Cortés arrived on the Mexican gulf coast near the Totonac city of Quiyahuiztlan.

Upon returning to Cuba, he enlisted in a new expedition, this one led by Hernán Cortés.

In 1539 Francisco de Ulloa was the first European to discover the in what was the last expedition financed by Hernán Cortés.

In 1533, Fortún Ximénez, a mutineer on an exploring expedition sent by Hernán Cortés, discovered the southern portion of Baja California, around La Paz.

In point of historical fact, it was Vasco Núñez de Balboa's expedition which were the first Europeans to see the Pacific, but Keats chose to focus on Hernán Cortés ; " Darien " refers to the Darién province of Panama.

Because the first expedition detected the presence of gold in the region, a second expedition under the command of Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519.

In 1520, while Hernán Cortés was still trying to conquer Tenochtitlan, the Spanish sent an expedition south of the valley into this area.

The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain ( Spanish: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ) is the first-person narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( 1492 – 1581 ), the 16th-century military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler, who served in three Mexican expeditions ; that of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( 1517 ) to the Yucatán peninsula ; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva ( 1518 ), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés ( 1519 ) in the Valley of Mexico ; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec empire.

Although the narrative thrust diminishes the Cortés – Díaz del Castillo relationship, contrary to the factual record, his complex relationship with Cortés, and the sub-ordinate captains, suggests that, although he represented the faction of Governor Velázquez de Cuéllar in the expedition, Bernal Díaz del Castillo fully honoured his personal and military loyalty to Hernán Cortés.

He is most remembered as the leader of two expeditions, one to Mexico in 1520 to oppose Hernán Cortés, and the disastrous Narváez expedition to Florida in 1527.

In 1519, Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Mexico that would eventually result in the overthrow of the Aztec Empire.

* Jim Cummings as Hernán Cortés, the merciless and ambitious leader of the expedition to find the ancient South American empires.

The Spaniards would not learn of these two men until the expedition of Hernán Cortés, two years later.

European contacts with the Pericú began in the 1530s, first when Fortún Ximénez and mutineers from an expedition sent out by Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of central Mexico, reached La Paz, followed shortly afterwards by an expedition under Cortés himself ( Mathes 1973 ).